Film Friday

Film Friday

A weekly Movie Moment that brings the Bible to life.

Film Friday Short: Don’t Give Up

A short thought this week – one of the great filmic perseverance moments occurs in the Shawshank Redemption. Andy Dufresne writes a letter a week to the prison authorities asking …

Film Friday: Contagion

When Beth Emhall returns from an international business trip feeling unwell things rapidly get out of hand, and it’s not long before it becomes evident that a dangerous pandemic is …

Film Friday: Groundhog Day (Again)

There is currently a short comedy clip doing the rounds. It’s a mock-up of the popular quiz, Who Wants To Be a Millionaire in which a contestant is offered a …

Film Friday: Risen

How do you portray the most extraordinary moment in history? A dawn which saw a dead man walking… and not a zombie, or a skin-stitched, bolt-necked Frankenstein monster (creatures which …

Film Friday: Wings of Eagles

Back in 1981 Chariots of Fire brought us the true tale of Olympic athletes Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell. The dramatic and stirring Wings of Eagles brings us a partly …

Film Friday: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

What’s wrong with this picture? This is not in fact a scene from The Great Escape. It’s from Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. And yet it is also from The …

Film Friday: Military Wives

Military Wives With their husbands away serving in Afghanistan, chalk and cheese organisers, Kate and Lisa, form a choir to help lift the spirits of the wives left on the …

Film Friday: The Two Popes

A tale of two leaders, Benedict and Francis. When conservative Pope Benedict invites the radical soon-to-be-Pope-but-doesn’t-yet-know-it Francis to the Vatican the two find they have more in common than they …